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Discover the secrets to funding and creating successful indie films with The Art of Film Funding Podcast. Join Carole Dean, President of From the Heart Productions and author of The Art of Film Funding, and Heather Lenz, director of the award-winning documentary Kusama-Infinity, as they chat with top film industry pros. Get practical insider tips on crowdfunding, pitching, saving on budgets, marketing, hybrid distribution, and the latest in A.I. filmmaking. Whether you’re funding your first project or navigating new trends, this podcast has everything you need to succeed. Subscribe and let’s get your film funded!
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From Script to Screen to Strategy: Spade Robinson on the New Era of Filmmaking
mercredi 26 novembre 2025 • Duration 57:35
Spade Robinson is an award- winning screenwriter and director, with experience that spans feature film, documentary, television, commercial and theater. Spade is the owner of full service production company, Spade Ink Media, producing and developing a slate of film, television and podcast projects. Spade is also the owner of Atlanta Film Project, a screenplay and documentary consulting firm, helping storytellers and companies to tell the most compelling version of their stories.
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Crowdfunding — with Bri Castellini
mercredi 19 novembre 2025 • Duration 59:54
Description: We’re joined by Bri Castellini, one of the top crowdfunding experts in the indie film world. While at Seed&Spark, Bri helped filmmakers raise over $25 million—achieving an incredible 85% success rate. Bri is an independent film and screenwriting consultant and a subject matter expert in arts crowdfunding, indie filmmaking, film festivals, podcasting, romance novels, and the USA television show Burn Notice. As a filmmaker herself she's known for her short film Ace and Anxious (writer/director, 160k+ views on YouTube) and for her podcast Breaking Out of Breaking In. She personally helped launch over $25 million dollars in crowdfunding campaigns with an 85% success rate while she was the Manager of Creator Success at the artist crowdfunding platform Seed&Spark, and she’s spoken at over 200 events and festivals virtually and in person on the subjects previously mentioned. Her full work history can be found on her website BriCastellini.com. And find her at https://www.instagram.com/castellinifilmschool/.
In this powerful conversation, Bri reveals what most filmmakers get wrong about crowdfunding, why going viral is not the goal, and how to fund your film by simply telling your story with heart.
Emily Best on Crowdfunding That Works: How Seed&Spark Helps Filmmakers Succeed
dimanche 10 août 2025 • Duration 39:04
Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a platform that makes entertainment more diverse, inclusive, connected and essential. Seed&Spark’s platform and national education program have helped thousands of bold storytellers raise millions to bring to life entirely new stories, and Seed&Spark delivers those stories into workplaces for employee training, engagement, and intelligence through an enterprise SaaS platform Film Forward.
In 2023, CNBC named Seed&Spark one of the top 200 fintech companies in the world. She serves on the Advisory Board for a variety of early stages startups and the Board of Film Impact Georgia. In 2024, alongside Christie Marchese at Kinema, Emily spearheaded an effort to launch The Distribution Playbook, a free and open- sourced field guide for independent filmmakers to succeed in distribution.
She has produced films, VR, shorts and series that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, Slamdance, Tribeca and more. She is currently touring with a feature documentary she produced called RATIFIED about the 100+ year struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment.
Successful documentary self distribution shared by Robyn Symon
Season 1 · Episode 153
mercredi 3 août 2022 • Duration 53:37
Techniques for Using Your Mind to Fund Your Film
Season 1 · Episode 152
lundi 18 juillet 2022 • Duration 51:37
Puzzle Theory is a New Platform for Filmmakers to Market & Find Distributors
Season 1 · Episode 151
mercredi 6 juillet 2022 • Duration 56:57
Extraordinary Filmmakers book funds Documentary Emergency Fund
Season 1 · Episode 150
mercredi 8 juin 2022 • Duration 01:01:47
Join Sally Rubin to learn how making an impactful short can advance your career
Season 1 · Episode 149
mercredi 1 juin 2022 • Duration 44:26
How Marlon Fuentes blended fact & fiction for his trailblazing documentary film.
Season 1 · Episode 148
mercredi 4 mai 2022 • Duration 51:25
Michael Culyba Discusses His Directorial Debut, "Keeper of Time"
Season 1 · Episode 144
mercredi 20 avril 2022 • Duration 45:18
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